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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/3] pvh: Add x86/HVM direct boot ABI header file


From: Daniel P . Berrangé
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/3] pvh: Add x86/HVM direct boot ABI header file
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:03:11 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 02:57:29PM +0000, Liam Merwick wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/12/2018 14:01, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:37:24PM +0000, Liam Merwick wrote:
> > > From: Liam Merwick <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > The x86/HVM direct boot ABI permits Qemu to be able to boot directly
> > > into the uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run 
> > > firmware.
> > > 
> > >   https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html
> > > 
> > > This commit adds the header file that defines the start_info struct
> > > that needs to be populated in order to use this ABI.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Maran Wilson <address@hidden>
> > > Signed-off-by: Liam Merwick <address@hidden>
> > > Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > >   include/hw/xen/start_info.h | 146 
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 146 insertions(+)
> > >   create mode 100644 include/hw/xen/start_info.h
> > 
> > Does it make sense to bring in Linux
> > include/xen/interface/hvm/start_info.h via QEMU's
> > include/standard-headers/?
> > 
> > QEMU has a script in scripts/update-linux-header.sh for syncing Linux
> > headers into include/standard-headers/.  This makes it easy to keep
> > Linux header files up-to-date.  We basically treat files in
> > include/standard-headers/ as auto-generated.
> > 
> > If you define start_info.h yourself without using
> > include/standard-headers/, then it won't be synced with Linux.
> > 
> 
> That does seem better.  I will make that change.
> 
> One a related note, I'm trying to fix the mingw compilation errors [1] in
> this series also.  I can fix the format issues with PRIx64, etc but I can't
> seem to find an include file to provide a declaration of mmap() et. al. -
> has this been resolved before? A pointer to something similar to investigate
> would be very welcome.

There is no mmap() on mingw, so you'll have to make sure that code is
conditionally compiled with  #ifndef WIN32 where appropriate.

> [1] http://patchew.org/logs/address@hidden/address@hidden/?type=message
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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